schema display

On last week's call, when I asked people to review the presentation
of the (old) SML schema document at

   http://www.w3.org/2008/09/sml-schema.xsd

a couple of people reported that IE7 was reporting an error (that the
stylesheet was not well-formed).

I have now identified the cause, which appears to be either a bug or
an eccentricity in IE7 (it appears to be using quirks mode in parsing
the XSL stylesheet, and is confused by an entity declaration in the
internal DTD subset because the entity replacement text contains
start- and end-tags), and removed it.  So I believe that the schema
document (and the sml-if-schema.xsd document in the same directory)
will now display in IE7.

Two requests, and a query:

   - Please check to make sure it does actually display without problems
     in the browsers you use; report problems to me or to the list.
   - If it does display without error, please look at least briefly at
     the presentation to see if you like it or would prefer the way
     the schema documents display when they don't have a stylesheet  
link.

If anyone knows where to inquire about this IE7 behavior and report it
as a bug, please let me know.  I have not found a bug report interface
on the MS site (but then, I only spent a few minutes looking so far).

-- 
   C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C XML Activity
   http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq
   http://cmsmcq.com/mib/
   http://www.balisage.net/

Received on Monday, 19 January 2009 04:04:47 UTC